This is a reader-submitted post. My 30 Things 1. My diagnosis is: chronic migraine with post-traumatic headache (the trauma was hitting my head on pavement and then a car accident) and cervicogenic headache 2. My migraine attack frequency is: every day. It used to be episodic, but became chronic in May 2014. 3. I was…
This is a reader-submitted story. 1. Chronic Migraine – 33 years into this 2. 25/month average 3. 1994 4. Several kinds of Aura, Temporary blindness, Aphasia, Intense pain on left side, neck ache, hyper active prior to, depression, suicidal, does not respond to painkillers 5. Topomax, imitrex, cipralex, percacet, T3’s, magnesium, VitC 6. When I…
This is a reader-submitted story. 1. My diagnosis is: Chronic Migraine with Chronic Daily Headache 2. My migraine attack frequency is: 20-25 days per month 3. I was diagnosed in: 1993 4. My comorbid conditions include: Hypothyroidism, Reactive Hypoglycemia, Tachycardia 5. I take Magnesium & Propranolol each day for prevention and Zomig & Motrin to…
It’s been 12 years since my first appointment with a headache specialist. Going with Hart when he saw a specialist for the first time a few weeks ago provided an interesting perspective. Hart had a spike in his migraine frequency significant enough that we were both worried. (We figured out it’s due to an unrelated…
In April, my migraine frequency and severity finally decreased enough that I began to feel like I had a normal life again for the first time in more than a decade. The pieces have been falling into place for a while: the move to Phoenix, wearing TheraSpecs, starting a high dose of magnesium, taking cyproheptadine,…